Armin's subsequent reaction is priceless ◊, especially since Eren, Armin, and Mikasa are currently being held at gunpoint and Eren isn't exactly helping. The first thing he says is 'you are all going to die.', with a sheepish grin and relaxed expression.

A case Played for Laughs is when Eren starts to regain his senses after emerging from his Titan form for the first time.Apart from the gore that follows, the casual way this cruel deed occurs makes this among the most unsettling scenes in the series. Among the Shifters, the Beast Titan is this, constantly wearing a sweet smile, even right before condemning Mike Zacharius to an excruciating death by being torn limb-to-limb by a group of Titans.Some of the human characters fight like this too, primarily Levi. Actually justified in that Titans are normal people who are trapped in an eternal Lotus-Eater Machine, so it would make sense that their Titan forms look very blissed-out and high as the sky. Depending on who you ask, this either makes them unintentionally hilarious or extremely unnerving. They look like they're stoned out of their minds. Most of the Titans from Attack on Titan wander around with a creepy smile (or another expression) plastered to their faces as they seek out and devour people.And he will continue to look like that even as he makes elite veteran soldiers shit bricks with the sheer Killing Intent hiding just underneath the surface. Shiota Nagisa from Assassination Classroom outwardly looks like a sweet little slightly androgynous milquetoast kid.Given that Shin is struggling with war trauma, his dissonant serenity is a sign that something is off. He remains calm as he snatches a knife from one of the thugs and hurls it into a robber's shoulder. When confronted by three Paris thugs, Shin just smiles. Shin demonstrates this in the Area 88 OVA.She is unaffected by the grave situation, due to having lived through much worse in her youth as a child soldier To some extent, Yukiko fits this trope when she has her glasses on in the Red Night, where she keeps her upbeat attitude.In the anime adaptation of 11eyes, Yuka progressively becomes one as the mixture of the pressure of the Red Night, the constant near-death situations and her increasing jealousy of the other girls mentally break her.7 Seeds: So the Final Test is upon the candidates who want to be chosen to be sent to the future, which includes cutting them off from previous comforts like running water, gas and even the dorms they have seen as a home, with the likely consequences that people will die? All Ayu has to say about this is that it's good since things will be finally decided upon properly, with a sweet smile on her face.The opposite of this trope is Felony Misdemeanor, which involves a character overreacting to trivial wrongs as if they were serious. Compare Dissonant Laughter, The Slow Walk, Major Injury Underreaction, Unfazed Everyman, Conditioned to Accept Horror, But for Me, It Was Tuesday, Obviously Not Fine, and Ominous Adversarial Amusement. If the character is drowning at the time, it's Symbolic Serene Submersion. Expect this character to be Strolling Through the Chaos while speaking in a Danger Deadpan. Tranquil Fury seems similar on paper but is very different in practice.

The Comically Serious is this trope Played for Laughs. Also likely to overlap with While Rome Burns. Mysterious and frail-looking characters of whom one wouldn't expect such prowess often make it look like the easiest thing in the world to vanquish the enemy.Īnother deceivingly harmless state of mind, although uncomprehending: Psychopathic Manchild, who often has a Lack of Empathy. Villains and heroes can be dissonantly serene in battle mode, but it's rarely the main character who does that. Whereas many see this as a day of horrible bloodshed, this one is seemingly about as used to it as to a day of grocery shopping, and even if the chaos around them does genuinely bother them at all, chances are they will react with all the shock and terror of accidentally spilling coffee on their brand-new pants. They are the eye of the storm, the calm center of destruction, and their serenity is so off that it's more terrifying than any fury. seeming almost enlightened as they slit throats left and right. It's terrifying, but it is to be expected.īut what about when you see peace in the middle of horror? One is smiling - not viciously, not insanely, not stoically - but calm, gentle. Screaming and cursing, the clattering of swords, gunfire.

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